The Whistleblower

An American working as a U.N. peacekeeper in Bosnia (Rachel Weisz) discovers a black market trafficking in sex slaves that involves many of her colleagues and higher-ups. The story is ugly, the movie grim and often hard to take, but also suspenseful, eye-opening and riveting. The script by Eilis Kirwan and director Larysa Kondracki fictionalizes many of the names (though not that of Wiesz’s character, Kathryn Bolkovak), and even the name of the private contracting firm that hired her, then fired her for her investigation (let the record show that, in real life, it was the U.S. company DynCorp International, not the British “Democra”). Kondracki’s direction is careless about details—accents are sometimes too thick, and voices too soft, to be clearly understood—but the big picture is clear (and disturbing) enough.